In 1790, Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev, having traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow, described his road impressions in the book, which cost him freedom and became a symbol of humanistic confrontation for contemporaries and descendants. The hot spores “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” that once caused in Russia is perceived today as a textbook. And two, a little century later, the Belgian Slavists Emmanuel Vagemans and Vim Kaudenis decided to take a new journey along the former postal tract with the Radishchev book in his hand, stopping in each of the cities, towns and villages that gave the name to its heads. What is preserved in those parts from the era of Catherine II? Have the landscape and architecture, as well as life and customs have changed greatly since then? Often a curious look and an attentive camera of a foreigner notes what sometimes eludes our usual eye. Timely observations of travelers are intersects in both the Catherine Age and in not so ancient times, leading …
Author
Vagemans Emmanuel, Kudenis Vim
Editor
Fedorova N.
Translator
Silvestrov Dmitry Vladimirovich
Publisher
Hummingbird, 2013
Series
Cities and people
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